(courtesy of Librarians' Rx)

A new study measuring IT use among physicians, nurses and pharmacists was conducted to determine the 100 "most wired" hospitals and health systems in the United States. The report also identifies the 25 most-improved, the 25 most-wireless and the 25 most-wired small and rural hospitals.

One interesting note: "Researchers found that physicians at 41% of the most-wired hospitals use computerized systems for drug ordering, compared with 27% of all hospitals surveyed and 8% of the 100 least-wired hospitals. Electronic medication alerts also are more common at the most-wired hospitals, according to the report. In an independent analysis, conducted by Solucient, researchers compared mortality rates for the most-wired hospitals with other hospitals and found that health systems that have invested significantly in IT have risk-adjusted mortality rates that are 7.2% lower than other hospitals. However, researchers said the analysis does not establish a causal relationship between IT and mortality rates."

Here are the rankings what I find interesting is the big name hospitals who are not on the list.